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Resource Location and Discovery (RELOAD) is a peer-to-peer (P2P) signalling protocol for use on the Internet. A P2P signalling protocol provides its clients with an abstract storage and messaging service between a set of cooperating peers that form the overlay network.
resolv.conf is a computer file used in various operating systems to configure the system's Domain Name System (DNS) resolver.The file is a plain-text file usually created by the network administrator or by applications that manage the configuration tasks of the system.
It is developed for the Debian Linux distribution, and is closely integrated with Debian's package management system, dpkg. When packages are being installed, debconf asks the user questions which determine the contents of the system-wide configuration files associated with that package.
NetworkManager takes an opportunistic approach to network selection, attempting to use the best available connection as outages occur, or as the user roams between wireless networks. It prefers Ethernet connections over “known” wireless networks, which are preferred over wireless networks with SSIDs to which the user has never connected.
The list of services that will be serviced is given in a configuration file, usually /etc/inetd.conf.A GUI for managing the configuration file is an optional accessory. The daemon may need a signal in order to re-read its configuration.
udev (userspace /dev) is a device manager for the Linux kernel.As the successor of devfsd and hotplug, udev primarily manages device nodes in the /dev directory. At the same time, udev also handles all user space events raised when hardware devices are added into the system or removed from it, including firmware loading as required by certain devices.
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xinetd listens for incoming requests over a network and launches the appropriate service for that request. [5] Requests are made using port numbers as identifiers and xinetd usually launches another daemon to handle the request. [6] It can be used to start services with both privileged and non-privileged port numbers.